Telecom Historian Mugs

'He's so behind the times - his Hot Line is rotary!'

'Yes, as a matter of fact, you have caught me at a bad time.'

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

'Someday TVs will be in big boxes on the floor.'

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

Fossil record player.

All of our representatives are busy right now. Stay on the line and someone will be with you in a few miles.

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

God pulling the plug on January 1st 2000

'Yes, our phones have WIRES attached to them! We're no free-range blabbermouths in this household!'

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

'And now for the anesthesia: I've got plenty of conventional anesthetics I could use here but you can also choose to spend half an hour on the phone with my mother...'

"Grandma, I have to bring an antique to school. Can I borrow your flip phone?"

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

'I don't know what it is. I think it's some kind of old-fashioned cell phone.'

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

'Santa thinks desktops will come back.'

Caveman to wheel inventor: 'Nice invention - how do you boot it up?'

The Thinker (Millennials Edition)

Computer Address Book.

'In ancient times they needed these to watch TV!'

Bell on early phone: 'I know it's you, Watson - stop trying to sound like Edison!'

"He'll come to eat when he can interrupt dinner. He's playing telemarketer."

The early version of accidentally hitting 'reply all.'

"Scratch and sniff ... it smells like mimeograph paper."

'Environmental dept? Yes, just a query. It's August, it's 85?. It has been for 3 months now...'

'If you don't mind, I'm trying to use the telephone here.'

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.